More than 400 people have been killed and 220,000 have fled to neighboring countries since the crisis erupted in April, triggered by Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term.
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CNARED, a coalition claiming to uphold the Arusha peace agreement which they claim Nkurunziza’s third term violates, were present at the talks.
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Just over a week ago, the UN Security Council, voicing deep concern at the escalation of violence in Burundi, called for urgent acceleration of mediation efforts by East African States and urged all Burundian stakeholders to fully cooperate with a proposed African Union peacekeeping mission.
But even before the start of negotiations – due to begin in Tanzania on January 6 – the Burundian government imposed conditions.
“I really appeal to you, the two sides, to sit down and have a political solution so that you save the people from the suffering”, Museveni said as the talks opened.
“The political crisis that has gripped Burundi since April 2015 has latterly been marked by brutal violence, targeted attacks, extrajudicial killings, severe oppression and the incitement of communal tensions”, said the WCC and AACC in their 18 December statement.
AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Friday said she would welcome “the resumption of the inter-Burundian dialogue in Entebbe”, and said she had written to Nkurunziza pleading for the force to be allowed to deploy, “to seek the consent of the Burundian government for the early deployment” of peacekeepers.
The African Union (AU) said this month it was ready to send 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians in Burundi, something the government has rejected as a violation of its sovereignty. In fact, regional leaders must stand up and tell Nkurunziza to stop dictating who should or shouldn’t be at the negotiating table. “The country will have been attacked and it will respond”, he said, in his first public response to the AU plan.
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Continued clashes and targeted assassinations in the central African nation have unsettled a region where memories of the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda are still raw. Reports of dead bodies in the streets of the capital also became a regular occurrence, with more than 240 people reported killed since the unrest kicked off last spring. Saturday protests was led by Vice President Gaston Sindimwo, who stressed that Burundi’s army can handle the violence without foreign troops.
